Today's Headlines:My Deputy Plotted Coup Against Me–Obaseki, Jonathan Advocates Closer Academia, Industry Partnership To Enhance Employment
Obaseki: My Deputy Plotted Coup against Me, He’s So Desperate
Source: THISDAY LIVE
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has accused his deputy, Philip Shaibu, of planning to succeed him at all costs, while also narrating how Shaibu plotted a coup against him during the election of the Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly last June.Obaseki and Shaibu have been at loggerheads ahead of the Edo State governorship election scheduled to hold in 2024, with Shaibu insisting on being given the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket as a matter of right.
Speaking yesterday while addressing stakeholders of the party in Benin, Obaseki said Shaibu plotted against him during the race to pick a Speaker for the Edo State House of Assembly.The governor explains: “During the nomination of the commissioners, about five of us were supposed to look at the list of nominees from the local governments of the state. That morning, I called him (Shaibu) for the meeting, but he didn’t attend. That’s why Itsako does not have a commissioner. I still gave him the respect to provide his nominee when he’s ready.
Jonathan Advocates Closer Academia, Industry Partnership To Enhance Employment
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has advocated for closer academia and industry partnerships to foster industrialisation, economic growth and enhance employability of university graduates in Africa.
Jonathan, according to a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Mr Ikechukwu Eze, in Abuja on Friday, was quoted making the call in his message as the Chancellor of Cavendish University, Uganda (CUU), at the institution’s 12th graduation ceremony.
Jonathan said that such collaborations would help universities and industries to co-create educational programme that align with the needs of today’s job market and help students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
“In today’s rapidly evolving world, the demands of the job market are continually changing. Employers seek graduates who possess not only a solid academic foundation but also the practical skills and industry-relevant experiences necessary to excel in their chosen fields.
“This is where the collaboration between academia and industry becomes paramount.
“Academia and industry partnerships foster a dynamic ecosystem that bridges the gap between theory and practice. By working hand-in-hand, universities and industries can co-create educational programmes that align with the needs of the job market.
I want swift economic recovery for good of Nigerians-Tinubu
Source: The Guardian
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu reassured Nigerians on Friday that no stone would be left unturned in his administration’s efforts to stimulate the economy and make it work for the good of all Nigerians.
The President stated this at a meeting with the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) Professionals Forum led by former Bauchi State Governor, Malam Isa Yuguda in Abuja.
“This economy must recover for the good and greatest number of Nigerians, and we are seriously committed to seeing through a change for the better,” he said.
To steadily ensure growth and enhanced public enlightenment on policy outcomes, Tinubu said every effort across sectors would be documented and periodically reviewed for performance verification and public presentation.
“So far, we have taken some baby steps and pushed some aggressive positions,” the President told the APC professionals, who had earlier pledged their support for his reforms.
El-Rufai’s betrayal and Akpabio’s buffoonery
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Former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s rumored withdrawal from consideration as a minister in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government because high-tensile inter-elite intrigues torpedoed his senate confirmation and caused the president to sour on him is the bluntest, crudest, most double-dyed political treachery I’ve seen in a long time.
Sure, El-Rufai is a detestable, self-important, unfeeling, overweening, and divisive political villain whom I once called the most dangerous Nigerian politician alive, but he is more central to Tinubu’s emergence as president than the people on whose behalf Tinubu has thrown him under the bus.El-Rufai left everything aside to galvanize support for Tinubu among northern governors, which was crucial to Tinubu’s win in APC’s primary election. He stood up to Muhammadu Buhari’s cabal on Tinubu’s behalf at a time when few people within the circles of power were willing to stick out their necks for a presidential wannabe.
When the Central Bank of Nigeria rolled out its damagingly birdbrained naira recoloring policy to stymie Tinubu’s chances at the polls, El-Rufai launched an all-out, scorched-earth, no-holds-barred rhetorical blitzkrieg against the CBN and honchos of the Buhari regime. Tinubu got tremendous persuasive mileage and sympathy from the knowledge that the hurt Nigerians were undergoing in the days leading up to the election was engineered to get at him, and no one enabled this awareness more than El-Rufai.
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